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Using a historical lens to interrogate why and how people cross borders in the SADC region, this book explains how nation-states and national communities are made in the borderlands and shows how communities and individuals have fought back against regimes attempting to contain and control them through securitized borders.
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Introduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective by Munyaradzi Mushonga, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, and Grey Magaiza
Part 1: Bordermaking, Smuggling, and Contemporary Resonances
Chapter 1: "Putting Gunboats on the Lake": Frelimo's Guerrilla War and Malawi's Border Dispute with Tanzania in the 1960s by Michael G. Panzer
Chapter 2: Permit-less Crossing and Tourism: Constructing Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present by John Aerni-Flessner
Chapter 3: Posted Passports and Fake Stamps: Documented Mobility, Invisibility, and the Informal Enforcement of South Africa's Border with Zimbabwe by Xolani Tshabalala
Chapter 4: Contested Borderscapes, Border Farms, and Guided Travels in Zimbabwe's Struggle for Self-Rule, 1960-1970s by Nicholas Nyachega
Part 2: (Im)Mobilities, Transnational Communities, and Settlement
Chapter 5: "The River is a Natural Resource, not a Border?" Understanding Tonga Borderland Community Responses to State Border Security Policy in Binga District of Zimbabwe, c. 1957 to 2017 by Teverayi Muguti
Chapter 6: Crossing a 'Ficticious' Border: Angolan Refugees' Mobility and Settling Dynamics in the Lower Congo (1950s-1970s) by Ana Guardião
Chapter 7: Angolan and Mozambican Border Towns: Interconnecting and Consolidating Southern African Mobilities by Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
Chapter 8: Cross-Border Mobility of Mozambicans to South Africa and the Growth of Informal Trade in the City of Xai-Xai, 2005-2022 by Victor Simões Henrique
Chapter 9: Cultural Capital, Virtual Borderlands and the Making of the Southern African Communities in Two Zambian Novels by Mwaka Siluonde
Part 3: Gender and the Politics of (Il)Legal Border Crossing
Chapter 10: 'You Have to Pay with Your Body': The Precarity of Subaltern Basotho Migrant Women within the Lesotho-South Africa Border(land)s by Munyaradzi Mushonga and Stephanie Cawood
Chapter 11: Woman Entrepreneurs and Border Jumpers in the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border by Francis Musoni
Chapter 12: Of 'Paqama Gates' and 'Paqama Scouts': The Innerworkings of Regulated Illegal and Irregular Border Crossing Between Lesotho and South Africa by Chitja Twala and Grey Magaiza
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Edited by Munyaradzi Mushonga; John Aerni-Flessner; Chitja Twala and Grey Magaiza - Contributions by John Aerni-Flessner; Stephanie Cawood; Ana Guardião; Victor Simões Henrique; Grey Magaiza; Teverayi Muguti; Munyaradzi Mushonga; Francis Musoni; Nicholas
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Using a historical lens to interrogate why and how people cross borders in the SADC region, this book explains how nation-states and national communities are made in the borderlands and shows how communities and individuals have fought back against regimes attempting to contain and control them through securitized borders.
